Mental Health & Employment Law Conference
Masterclass in Mental Health for Supervisors, Managers and Leaders
Develop organisational ecological systems that nourish and support staff’s mental health and reduce stress and overwhelm.
This Masterclass has been designed to help leaders, managers and supervisors facilitate optimal growth, health and wellbeing within staff and teams with our unique ecological approach. This approach supports a much-needed paradigm shift as we map how to move from autonomous and siloed ways of working and look toward fostering an all-encompassing, relational, interdependent and sustainable way forward.
Who should attend?
This workshop will support Leaders, Managers and Supervisors with:
- Introducing ecological systems theory into organisational settings.
- Assisting staff with mental health and wellbeing from a psychobiological lens.
- Learning to notice and track somatic signs of stress, overwhelm and burnout.
- Developing Healthy Boundaries
- Connection: the importance of relationships
- Supporting staff to work from a place of health, wellbeing and sustainability
Learning outcomes include:
- The importance of acknowledging and honouring individual strengths and needs within team environments.
- Maintaining the integrity of the collective and organisational needs.
- Holding duality so that multiple wants and needs can co-exist.
Workshop leaders
The program will provide opportunity to reflect, explore, identify and co-design ways of working with staff and within teams. The Restoring Resilience program is underpinned by the neuroscientific framework of Stephen Porges and is a combination of Somatic and Relational Gestalt theory and practices.
Anna Skolarikis & Phyllis Tranficante, Co-founders, Restoring Resilience
Phyllis Traficante and Anna Skolarikis are the founders of Restoring Resilience, a partnership aiming to help organisations and individuals in the treatment and resolution of stress, overwhelm, and trauma. Both are trained psychotherapists and have been conducting workshops all around the country to help promote mental health awareness.
Don’t miss an opportunity to invest in implementing an ethical and sustainable way of working for you and your team.
We look forward to seeing you there!
For any event enquiries, please email eventsanz@thomsonreuters.com
Dates & Locations
f Livestream 8 October 2021Your Investment
Workshop
Early Bird*
$650 + GST
Standard Pricing
$750 + GST
*Early Bird closes 26 August 2021
For any event enquiries, please email eventsanz@thomsonreuters.com.
Agenda
Registration & livestream lobby opend
Welcome Workshop Leaders
Session 1: Your organisation: An ecological system.
What is an organisational ecological system? Staff are under considerable demand as COVID -19 has had a huge and devastating impact on life as we knew it. Now, more than ever it is paramount to co-create and develop organisational structures that support a space for staff to reset, restore and regenerate so they can meet work demands from a place of sustainability, flexibility and resilience.
- Leaders explore their organisations as an ecological system
- Map out individual and collective resources, unmet needs and gaps within teams
- Diversity - paramount to supporting health and sustainability of staff within the organisation.
Session 2: Stress, overwhelm and burnout: with staff and within teams
A psychobiological perspective toward staff and team safety, health and wellbeing. We will look at Stephen Porges latest neuroscientific framework, the Polyvagal Theory, and support managers to identify early signs of stress, overwhelm and burnout.
- The autonomic nervous system will up-regulate and down-regulate arousal levels when dealing with adversity and stress
- Signs and symptoms of when your staff or team are signalling that they need a break or when they are edging towards burnout.
- Why connection, safety and curiosity will protect staff and teams from vicarious trauma and burnout.
Break
Session 3: Connection: the importance of relationships (self-regulation plus co-regulation)
Why relationships matter the most? In infancy and early childhood development we learn if it is safe to individuate and separate. Paradoxically, separation is only possible when there is safety in the attachment and connection. In our workplace settings, we require managers and leaders who understand this fundamental and developmental need to feel culturally and physically safe, to belong, to flow between states of connection and individuation
- Learn about relational neurobiology, brain malleability, the fundamental relational gift of human beings and how we have survived by forming relationships and emotional connection.
- Triune Brain and how different areas manage different part of the regulatory system
Session 4: Reflective practice: Perception and Meaning Making
We look at Reflective practice touching on fundamental gestalt principles of curiosity, inquiry, dialogue and unconditional positive regard. We challenge bias, assumptions and judgements and what they are supporting and constraining. We tackle shame in individuals, in leaders and team culture. We look at accountability, provide interventions that are somatic and relational based and so much more.
The workshops addresses systems/organisations from both the individual and systemic perspective but most importantly it prioritises the relationship - the in-between.
- Don’t ask why; ask how, when, what.
- Perception and meaning making are subjective.
- Learn to bracket our assumptions and engage from a position of curiosity and inquiry into how staff are perceiving their experiences and making meaning.
- Cultivate genuine curiosity and interest in the ways staff and teams rupture and repair.
- Misattunement can leave staff feeling misunderstood, not valued or cared for.
- The importance of self and coregulation relational skills
- Boundaries - differentiate between energetic states of connection and disconnection